To play the devil's advocate here, the ability to play some Xbox Arcade games is a pretty great motivator.
Xbox Arcade games are not that good. There are WAY more cool things you can do with an iphone.
I've not heard anyone rant about how great any Windows phone is ever. I sit next to a guy at work who raves about his iphone 4 until I'm sick of hearing it.
Personally I stick to a bottom of the line Nokia that actually gets 2 weeks of battery life. I want my phone for phone calls and the odd SMS and I have a laptop for everything else.
This is hardly new. I've been using OCR on and off for decades. I wrote a sudoku solver for 9x9 and 16x16 puzzles around 10 years ago and put it on the web for nothing when I realized that some slimeballs were charging to use a web based version.
I'll bet a whole load of slashdotters had more fun writing sudoku solvers than manually solving the puzzles.
This is informative? Really? Yes, Windows Mobile was slow and buggy, but Microsoft realized that and trashed it completely for WP7. It's a brand new OS that's as fast and responsive as anything out there. Your experiences and DO NOT BUY recommendation for the old OS are irrelevant.
Some blatant pro-MS trolling there. Would you really buy from a supplier that sold you rubbish the first ten times?
Learning from your mistakes and not making the same ones again is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. The phones are clogged with malware within 30 seconds of booting, and immediately start blasting out spam and attempting to infect other phones.
It's the same as always, Buy Microsoft and get hosed. With android and apple phones about what fool would buy a Microsoft phone?
I get the choice of voting for A or B. I have zero faith in these parties. I also have the choice of voting for C or D who are too small to get in any kind of power. However C and D don't represent anything I believe in and have shown they will lie and cheat just like the big parties do. It's just a protest vote not a vote for anything.
So do I vote for radical racists ( who I don't believe in ) just because the current crooks have backed out of all their promises?
There is no way a system of government can be based on less than one byte of data from me every few years, it's not enough bandwidth for them to claim I consent to anything they do.
I dropped my jaw as it was obviously a central heating pipe (no doubt with hot water flowing through it) and an Electrical conduit, no doubt powering the lights upstairs. I then hit my head against the wall when they said it was clear evidence of something weird going on.
You are assuming the viewers or producers of this program have average or higher intelligence. Most people are dumb enough to believe anything.
Then you should choose wisely. And there is a process for exorcising the bad seeds. I don't see anybody forcing you at gunpoint to vote for their hand picked candidate. The only remaining question is whether you're want to exercise your free will or just play along because it's easy.
So what do you suggest?
I either have the choice of voting for bad guy A or bad guy B. Or I have the choice of voting for someone else who won't get into power simply because most people will vote for whoever has the best, or the most adverts.
How do you suggest I exercise my free will here? The only alternative I see is trying to start a revolution which will only get me killed or locked up for the rest of my life.
If there is any alternative I missed please let me know.
Ahhh, bullshit. We choose our government also. Even if only by being so compliant. We have crappy products and crappy politicians for no other reason that we enable it for the god of convenience.
You don't choose your government. You get a choice between a few bad options every few years to create the illusion of choice.
I'm not go to America. Yeah I'd love to go there for sightseeing or a shopping trip but there is no way I want to be involved in any part of this security theater.
I became an engineer. I work in a cubicle. I bear a slight resemblance to Dilbert when in my work attire. This my friends, is worse than death. Therefore, I have no fear of death because I am beyond it.
IQ is just another kind of penis-measuring contest, anyway. It's not a real reflection of your ability to function in society by any stretch of the imagination. The only purpose it serves is to allow you to lord it over the lesser beings in your life.
-- Somebody who was invited to triple 9 society, when she had written her IQ test on 4 hours' sleep, and with a wicked migraine. (and no, I didn't accept... ended up not joining Mensa either).
As someone who is a paid up member of Mensa you are DEAD RIGHT. I'm successful in life because I keep trying, I see dumb people who are successful because they keep trying. Putting in the work gets the results. IQ only gives me the tendency to over complicate things.
So the Simpsons producers/writers can't tell the difference between China and South Korea?
For the most part Americans can't tell the difference between China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, or anywhere else in Asia. They seem to think it's all China.
I'm an American. I read about how I'm fat, arrogant, ignorant, overworked, and lazy every day. I don't even get the benefit of any of those stereotypes being that I use an old haggard unicorn to bring me my beer. I'm not very sympathetic on this one.
The American stereotype is: fat, arrogant, ignorant, and lazy. Right or wrong overworked isn't in there.
Much as I'm sure that Linux will perform faster and with far more stability than Windows in all given applications the parent is spot on here.
More speed isn't the answer here, less speed is needed. If anyone wants to buy and sell little bits of companies at those kinds of speeds they clearly have no interest whatsoever in the companies they are trading. They can only be gaming the system for unearned gain.
Investment bankers ( and I don't mean real investors ) are parasites on the capitalist system and anything that enriches them impoverishes someone who works for a living.
Just talk to your "halal" (quotes intended as it is stuffed with pork to the hilt) cheap chicken supplier.
You seriously think they use denatured beef and pork protein in halal chicken? If that's true it would upset the Jews, Muslims, and Hindu's something crazy.
Do you have any evidence chicken producers do that? A URL or anything?
I garner a lot of kudos on Slashdot." Convert that into something worth some cash and I MIGHT be interested, but likely not.
So cash is the only thing of value?
Cash isn't the apex of most people's value systems. Your world view makes you a hollow and empty person. You might be capable of just about anything but little of it is good.
BSD's not dead of course - look only to the Mach kernel in OS X for verification.
BSD is dead in the same way Linux desktops are dead. i.e. not at all.
Most people I know use either Linux or OS X on their desktops. The people I know who use windows instead keep asking me how to get rid of spyware, viruses, web browser hijacking things, and why their machines keep getting slower.
What I would really like to hear is equivalent quotes of companies who successfully migrated from MS Office to OO.o. Is there any? (no, not/. pseudonym-"in my office"-anecdotes, but real company names)
The Dutch government uses OpenOffice. It's saving them millions.
I look at it differently. As the Slashdot readers have become older and moved on, so has the content. Sure, Slashdot still covers the uber geeky tech stuff, it also covers a broader variety of topics. Which is rather welcome, I must say.
Slashdot barely covers tech news anymore. On the front page right now the only real tech news is 'Electromechanical Switches Could Reduce Future Computers Cooling Needs'. The rest is business news, politics, and a story on some stupid tool to stop stupid users from downloading stupid software. There was a time when there would be mention of filesystem performance, CPU pipelines, linux v BSD performance, kernel news, etc.
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To play the devil's advocate here, the ability to play some Xbox Arcade games is a pretty great motivator.
Xbox Arcade games are not that good. There are WAY more cool things you can do with an iphone.
I've not heard anyone rant about how great any Windows phone is ever. I sit next to a guy at work who raves about his iphone 4 until I'm sick of hearing it.
Personally I stick to a bottom of the line Nokia that actually gets 2 weeks of battery life. I want my phone for phone calls and the odd SMS and I have a laptop for everything else.
This is hardly new. I've been using OCR on and off for decades. I wrote a sudoku solver for 9x9 and 16x16 puzzles around 10 years ago and put it on the web for nothing when I realized that some slimeballs were charging to use a web based version.
I'll bet a whole load of slashdotters had more fun writing sudoku solvers than manually solving the puzzles.
This is informative? Really? Yes, Windows Mobile was slow and buggy, but Microsoft realized that and trashed it completely for WP7. It's a brand new OS that's as fast and responsive as anything out there. Your experiences and DO NOT BUY recommendation for the old OS are irrelevant.
Some blatant pro-MS trolling there. Would you really buy from a supplier that sold you rubbish the first ten times?
Learning from your mistakes and not making the same ones again is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
Don't attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. The phones are clogged with malware within 30 seconds of booting, and immediately start blasting out spam and attempting to infect other phones.
It's the same as always, Buy Microsoft and get hosed. With android and apple phones about what fool would buy a Microsoft phone?
Seriously, does no one do field testing anymore?
Of course. Everyone that brought a windows 7 phone is now doing field testing and what we are seeing are the results.
You didn't expect Microsoft to test before giving the device to customers did you? That's not the way Microsoft work.
I get the choice of voting for A or B. I have zero faith in these parties. I also have the choice of voting for C or D who are too small to get in any kind of power. However C and D don't represent anything I believe in and have shown they will lie and cheat just like the big parties do. It's just a protest vote not a vote for anything.
So do I vote for radical racists ( who I don't believe in ) just because the current crooks have backed out of all their promises?
There is no way a system of government can be based on less than one byte of data from me every few years, it's not enough bandwidth for them to claim I consent to anything they do.
I dropped my jaw as it was obviously a central heating pipe (no doubt with hot water flowing through it) and an Electrical conduit, no doubt powering the lights upstairs. I then hit my head against the wall when they said it was clear evidence of something weird going on.
You are assuming the viewers or producers of this program have average or higher intelligence. Most people are dumb enough to believe anything.
Then you should choose wisely. And there is a process for exorcising the bad seeds. I don't see anybody forcing you at gunpoint to vote for their hand picked candidate. The only remaining question is whether you're want to exercise your free will or just play along because it's easy.
So what do you suggest?
I either have the choice of voting for bad guy A or bad guy B. Or I have the choice of voting for someone else who won't get into power simply because most people will vote for whoever has the best, or the most adverts.
How do you suggest I exercise my free will here? The only alternative I see is trying to start a revolution which will only get me killed or locked up for the rest of my life.
If there is any alternative I missed please let me know.
Ahhh, bullshit. We choose our government also. Even if only by being so compliant. We have crappy products and crappy politicians for no other reason that we enable it for the god of convenience.
You don't choose your government. You get a choice between a few bad options every few years to create the illusion of choice.
What are you going to DO about this
I'm not go to America. Yeah I'd love to go there for sightseeing or a shopping trip but there is no way I want to be involved in any part of this security theater.
I became an engineer. I work in a cubicle. I bear a slight resemblance to Dilbert when in my work attire. This my friends, is worse than death. Therefore, I have no fear of death because I am beyond it.
That's a shitty life. Find a way out of it.
IQ is just another kind of penis-measuring contest, anyway. It's not a real reflection of your ability to function in society by any stretch of the imagination. The only purpose it serves is to allow you to lord it over the lesser beings in your life.
-- Somebody who was invited to triple 9 society, when she had written her IQ test on 4 hours' sleep, and with a wicked migraine. (and no, I didn't accept... ended up not joining Mensa either).
As someone who is a paid up member of Mensa you are DEAD RIGHT. I'm successful in life because I keep trying, I see dumb people who are successful because they keep trying. Putting in the work gets the results. IQ only gives me the tendency to over complicate things.
lazors
lasers - Light Amplification though Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
And they go on sharks, not penguins.
So the Simpsons producers/writers can't tell the difference between China and South Korea?
For the most part Americans can't tell the difference between China, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, or anywhere else in Asia. They seem to think it's all China.
I'm an American. I read about how I'm fat, arrogant, ignorant, overworked, and lazy every day. I don't even get the benefit of any of those stereotypes being that I use an old haggard unicorn to bring me my beer. I'm not very sympathetic on this one.
The American stereotype is: fat, arrogant, ignorant, and lazy. Right or wrong overworked isn't in there.
Oh, and don't forget gun obsessed.
I can't freakin' STAND KDE. I never really understood the appeal of it...just seemed like a convuluted mess to me.
It was good and I liked it until KDE 4 came out. After trying to use it for 4 hours I switched to XFCE and have never looked back.
I wonder if you'd be saying the same thing if they were replacing Linux with a Microsoft solution. Probably not.
Of course I would. The problem here is not the OS.
Does it run LINUX? Oh wait, it does. Cool!
If I built a robot that stole cash out of your bank account and it ran Linux would that still be cool?
Some things are not cool no matter what OS they run.
Yes it's a really bad analogy but still.
Much as I'm sure that Linux will perform faster and with far more stability than Windows in all given applications the parent is spot on here.
More speed isn't the answer here, less speed is needed. If anyone wants to buy and sell little bits of companies at those kinds of speeds they clearly have no interest whatsoever in the companies they are trading. They can only be gaming the system for unearned gain.
Investment bankers ( and I don't mean real investors ) are parasites on the capitalist system and anything that enriches them impoverishes someone who works for a living.
Just talk to your "halal" (quotes intended as it is stuffed with pork to the hilt) cheap chicken supplier.
You seriously think they use denatured beef and pork protein in halal chicken? If that's true it would upset the Jews, Muslims, and Hindu's something crazy.
Do you have any evidence chicken producers do that? A URL or anything?
I garner a lot of kudos on Slashdot." Convert that into something worth some cash and I MIGHT be interested, but likely not.
So cash is the only thing of value?
Cash isn't the apex of most people's value systems. Your world view makes you a hollow and empty person. You might be capable of just about anything but little of it is good.
We all trash Microsoft for making shitty products, but in the end we would all work for them given the chance.
Actually no. I would not work for them because I don't and could not believe in any of their products.
Money isn't everything, but it's all they have to offer.
BSD's not dead of course - look only to the Mach kernel in OS X for verification.
BSD is dead in the same way Linux desktops are dead. i.e. not at all.
Most people I know use either Linux or OS X on their desktops. The people I know who use windows instead keep asking me how to get rid of spyware, viruses, web browser hijacking things, and why their machines keep getting slower.
What I would really like to hear is equivalent quotes of companies who successfully migrated from MS Office to OO.o. Is there any? (no, not /. pseudonym-"in my office"-anecdotes, but real company names)
The Dutch government uses OpenOffice. It's saving them millions.
I look at it differently. As the Slashdot readers have become older and moved on, so has the content. Sure, Slashdot still covers the uber geeky tech stuff, it also covers a broader variety of topics. Which is rather welcome, I must say.
Slashdot barely covers tech news anymore. On the front page right now the only real tech news is 'Electromechanical Switches Could Reduce Future Computers Cooling Needs'. The rest is business news, politics, and a story on some stupid tool to stop stupid users from downloading stupid software. There was a time when there would be mention of filesystem performance, CPU pipelines, linux v BSD performance, kernel news, etc.